$26.67 / 1KG Australian Wild Caught Prawns Peeled and Packed in Vietnam. Apparently wild caught in NSW then processed in Vietnam 🤷♀️
Royal Red Prawn Meat (Crustacean) (Haliporoides sibogae) water and salt added. Preservative (222, 223) (Sulphiltes)
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Yes this is common for foodstuffs throughout the world (especially in parts of EU/EU as well) where a high amount of human labour is needed in short term bursts of mind-numbing repetitive very low skilled work.
To try and do this across ANZ would be mind-blowing expensive.
There are a few places that do this in Australia that are reasonably priced. So I wonder if it’s scalable. eg https://goldcoast.aussieseafoodhouse.com.au/product/peeled-p…
I've got a little insight into this. And it is way cheaper to shunt them to SEA for the manual processing and then shunt them back to ANZ.
But there is a bigger market (and other parts of the world). The market within Asia / ISC also makes it worthwhile as even 'richer' (middleclass upwards is questioning farmed seafood especially farmed within Asia).
@nonpop: I wonder if we can ever move to the point of if it’s profitable, even if more profit is good, decent profit is adequate. Then we have real competition.
Will you be willing to work for $2 an hour to peel and pack some prawns? If not, then you have your answer
Nah we need to tariff them and bring those jobs home lmfao
Hell no, if you tariff the cheap prawns and bring those jobs home, then what do you think happens to the price of prawns ?
These are cheap because they're processed cheaply somewhere else !
If you take that away, you now need to pay the Australian labour price. At $75 a kilo, prawns would just cease to be viable.
@Nom: I’m kidding, I’m pointing out in jest how the recent talk of tariffs in America are very stupid.
So it was CAUGHT in Australia then PEELED and PACKED in Vietnam then sent back to Australia to get SOLD. Amazing journey those prawn has gone through.
Anyone who bought these know the size of them?
Think of the carbon footprint of sending these back and forth to get peeled chemically.
Still, (on a slight tangent, though related) it is easier and cheaper for the consumer to buy heavily packaged Salmon from the other side of the world than Australian Salmon. So hypocritical when we are trying to close down Salmon farms in Tasmania due to blah blah blah.
When will we be able/willing to feed ourselves?
When you are willing to pay the high cost of labour Australian workers demand to process your food. Or to convince the workers to work for cheap
Yes this is ultra low skilled work. That is one of the challenges in the value-added chain. Really should be done by a machine, but machines totally suck at this with wastage being very high (raw good product and damage). Prawns are complex to process.
It's more to do with them being a stupid price to begin with and big business keeping it that way. I have a friend with a macadamia farm and it's cheaper for him to send to Indonesia to be cleaned and packed the back than here in NSW crazy
how do we know whether they are pumping extra gel into them for weight in vietnam ?
We don’t. My order wasn’t fulfilled so can’t comment on quality. Realistically we’re better off going to local fish mongers. But the convenience of this at the price appealed to me.
got a pack delivered today
lol why are these peeled and packed in vietnam
are too good to peel our own prawns nowadays
what has this country become